Vigilance Bureau’s Ludhiana range economic offense wing on Tuesday arrested the aide of a city-based travel agent accepting a bribe of ₹20,000 from a resident of New Sodhi Nagar, Moga, claiming that he could help her backdoor appointment at the passport office.

Sharing details about the incident, Vigilance said the complainant, Sukhdeep Kaur Gill, approached the economic offenses wing alleging that travel agent Kamal Goel, who runs a company under the name “Travel Club” near the city’s passport rental kendra demanded ₹20,000